Dark Purple Grizzly Chickaboo Body Marabou Patch

Dark Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou Marabou Body Patch

Dark Purple Grizzly is deep purple with black bars. It’s the darkest, moodiest patch in the grizzly lineup. In the water it reads as a long, dark, wiggling silhouette — which is exactly what a lamprey or a big leech looks like.

Dark Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou gives you barred dark fibers for lamprey and leech patterns, night flies and winter steelhead flies. When the light is gone, this is the patch.

Steelhead, lake-run browns, bass, muskie and stillwater trout.

Recipe 1: Dark Purple Grizzly Chickabou Lamprey

• Hook: Articulated: 30 mm shank with a #2 trailer hook
• Thread: Black 6/0
• Rear section: Dark Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou tail, long, over a black chickabou wrapped body
• Front section: Dark purple grizzly chickabou, wrapped as a full collar
• Head: Black bead or cone, small
• Eyes: Small 3D eyes, optional

Tying: Lampreys are long and thin. Build the fly long and slim, about 4 inches, with the tail making up nearly half its length.

How to fish: On Great Lakes tributaries, lake-run browns and steelhead see lampreys attached to fish all season. Swing it slowly or dead-drift it near the bottom in deep runs. A slow, long-wiggling fly is the goal.

Recipe 2: Dark Purple Grizzly Chickabou Night Bass Bugger

• Hook: Partridge 3XL streamer, #2–#4
• Bead: Black tungsten cone
• Thread: Black 6/0
• Tail: Dark Purple Grizzly Ewing Chickabou, full plume
• Body: Black Estaz or Straggle chenille
• Hackle: Black saddle, palmered
• Rattle (optional): Small glass rattle lashed under the shank

Tying: A Woolly Bugger built for the dark. The rattle adds sound that bass can find without seeing the fly.

How to fish: On summer nights, bass move shallow to feed. Fish it slowly along weed edges and shallow points. A slow, steady retrieve works best at night. Bass find it by silhouette and sound, so don’t rush.